




Portrait of a relaxed and friendly gay bar in Taiwan in the weeks before it closed due to police harrasment.
Direction
Zero Chou's patient observation builds devastating intimacy.
Editing
66 minutes that feel both too short and exactly enough.

Director
Zero Chou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taiwan wouldn't decriminalize homosexuality until 2019—this 2001 document captures pre-legalization queer life under active threat.
Zero Chou and Hoho Liu made this as their graduate thesis, smuggling equipment into the bar to avoid drawing police attention.